Troika at Design Indaba 2010
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Design, Travel, innovation
Have you ever wondered what the time is, right now, in the Bermuda Triangle? Or, say, in the Great Barrier Reef? Or, on top of Kilimanjaro?
Doesn’t it annoy you just a little to see the standard New York, Tokyo, Sydney, London on those world clocks? Has it ever occured to you that the choices of [...]
Regina & The Musical Bookstore
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Music, Travel
Regina Spektor’s album Far is playing non stop as I drive these days. Why is it that a song about drowning out the sounds in my mind should capture my heart?
I first heard the lyrics sitting in the most archetypal bookstore imaginable – an intellectual space with high shelves and ladders – and a lot [...]
Gooo! Notebooks
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Travel
Move over, Moleskine.
I love my Gooo. Quirky little notebook, just the right size, and handy enough to fit into my minimalist slingbag. Hurrah!
Well okay, I had to find a reason to go back to Argentina, soon. Right?
Go Gooo
Murals in Palermo Viejo
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Travel
Sometimes, it’s what on the outside that counts… I found plenty of wall-inspiration, walking around Palermo Viejo, arguably the hippest district in Buenos Aires. From tall cats to circus clowns, from colourful stripes to grey stencils, from portraits of lions to portraits of penguins, I saw, and saw more. For a couple of hours, days, [...]
Buenos Aires: Bonito
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Food, Travel
It’s always an adventure when you book holiday accommodation online, isn’t it? You never quite know what you’re going to get…
Sometimes, it is pure delight. (About the rest, I don’t bother to write). Bonito is a mother-daughter project, an apartment that’s been converted into a design hotel with 5 unique rooms. I booked us in [...]
Free wireless internet hotspots in South Africa
Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by admin in Lifestyle, Tech
Are you looking for free wireless internet hotspots in South Africa? I know I was, and it took me a little over an hour to aggregate the following information. I do hope this post goes some way to ensuring that you are never short of free wireless internet!
So I’m a bit of a coffee elitist, [...]
A list of my favourite podcasts
Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Blogs, Lifestyle, Podcasts, Tech, featured, technology
I listen to podcasts to and from work each day. I listen to the same podcasts whilst storming through the malls of Johannesburg. One could say that the podcasts I listen to are my therapist, tutor, news-anchor and go-to-guy for the latest in metal-news. So I thought it only fair to share a few of the podcasts I listen to, with you.
Henry Rollins live in South Africa Again!!
Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Lifestyle, Music, featured
Henry “Hank” Rollins – rock ‘n roll raconteur is back with his “Frequent Flyer” tour, all new stories, hilarious insights and anecdotes from a life so extraordinary that one lady said after the last show: “After watching Henry, I’m really not sure what I’ve spent my life doing…”
Now I attended his previous show in South [...]
Use your eBucks to help rebuild Haiti
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Lifestyle, Politics, featured
If you are reading this right now, chances are that already know that the most devastating natural disaster in recent history took place in Haiti earlier this month, when a series of earthquakes plunged the island’s capital Port-au-Prince into chaos. So far, roughly 150 000 victims of the disaster have been buried (http://su.pr/23k3ii), and the [...]
Nespresso – a profitable luxury coffee brand
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Blogs, Design, Food, Lifestyle, Tech
How did Nespresso, despite being rather pricey and positioned at once as a luxury aspirational brand and at the same time as a convenient online commodity, still manage to return positive results to its stake holders in spite of the global recession?
In 1970, Nestlé’s Research and Development department invented the Nespresso capsule-based coffee pressurized coffee [...]
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